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by inopinatus 614 days ago
The problem with trying to legislate a specific case of Postel's Law is that everyone who might get on board because of it, is already on board because of it, and vice versa.
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It also goes a bit more than that, for optimal UTF8 search you want the ASCII separators. It's always easier to search for a single byte than two or more bytes of special pattern.

That said, I do agree we should abolish CRLF. And replace it with LF.